the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the “how was your week” thread isn’t a great fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples’ posts aren’t getting lost.
tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don’t gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this’ll be a good way of getting to know all the people you’re now on here with
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Hi everyone!!
As with 99% of those here in this thread, a reddit user and so unenthused about the idea of not being able to choose my app to moderate or scroll. I’ve finally made the jump. My friends all think I am nuts, but I’m set on it. I take privacy and FOSS seriously!
I’ve been on Mastodon twice before, but this time I think I’m making it official, and loving how Lemmy is so far <3
I’m a Linux enthusiast, gamer (just got a Steam Deck! - BoTW via CEMU as Linkle, Stray and now starting the download for Skyrim, hoping that I can mod the game? The only YT video I checked out said that I need it installed on the SSD to work, which is hard since I have the 64gb version), I live for summer. Coffee is my reason for living.
Honestly joining up here feels as good as it did when I ditched the typical socials.
Can’t wait to get to know you all!
Ditto the FOSS love, if that makes you nuts then I guess we both are!
How well has BoTW been running on Steam Deck for you? If I could run that and ToTK emulated on a Deck I think that would be the final nail in the coffin for my switch
I play the WiiU version of BoTW, which is indistinguishable from the Switch one and has the bonus of a crazy modding community behind it. It works beautifully, not one hitch. I use the pre-rendered shader and pipeline cache for it so it has not-a-stutter. I also play at 40fps. And being able to play the whole game as Linkle is so a fun change!
Here is the video I followed, if you wanted a quick look!
Also ToTK is running on the Deck. The r/yuzu and r/newyuzupiracy have a ton of videos playing it, but I’m going to finish BoTW first before tackling the new one!
Here’s a video from a week ago of it running. But I am sure its much better now, as updates and tinkering have moved at a blistering speed over ToTK!
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Hello all! Fellow Reddit-abandoneer here. I’m on mastodon as @hexorg@techhub.social. I have a PhD in cyber security and I specialize in automated binary analysis. I have a collection of laserdiscs and I’m making a 90s themed arcade in my shed.
Hello!
I’ve been a Redditor for 11 years - I was even in the Century Club subreddit (it’s not nearly as interesting as you probably think it is).
I work as a AAA game programmer. I previously worked on the Battlefield series, but EA laid me off earlier this year as part of them shutting down my former studio. Now I’m working on a new AAA title I can’t really talk about.
Before I worked in the AAA space, I worked at Disneyland! I used to be a skipper on the World-Famous Jungle Cruise. I also worked as a host at the Tiki Room (fun fact: technically, this is considered part of the Jungle Cruise), a conductor on the Disneyland Railroad, and an “archaeologist” on the Indiana Jones ride they have there (although I disliked working Indy).
As a hobby, I have a model train layout. It’s in N-Scale (1:160). I’m also part of a local model railroad club that periodically meets up and puts together modular layouts. We meet at local convention centers and whatnot, where we string together a bunch of 4x2-foot layout sections that we each individually own/maintain and make one big mega-layout.
I’m super excited to be here!
Nice! I always wanted to make video games but then I was torn between that and cyber security and ended up doing cyber. Do you know programmers from other industries? Is there a gamedev-specific skillet required or could other programmers adjust?
Yeah, people come from all over. Game dev isn’t just “make the game”; there’s other things to think about too.
If you’re making a multiplayer “live service” title then you have to deal with things like AWS or Azure, and everything that comes with that. Tools engineers write the tools that get used to make a game, and generally those tools have nothing to do with the game itself - they’ll be written in Rust or Python or whatever.
Cybersecurity in gaming is a little more niche. The closest thing you have to it are anticheat guys; they’re usually “reformed” (or so they claim… I have my doubts 😉) cheat developers. They’ll try to hack our own game and tell us what they find, and we adjust to counter their hacking. Of course if a game does in-app payments you have to worry about wallets and such getting hacked, and if it’s something like EA where people have their own accounts you gotta handle that too.
And of course - there’s nothing that says you have to keep doing the same thing forever. You can always change what you specialize in and enter a new part of the field - or enter a new field entirely. One of our tools engineers was actually a construction worker 10 years ago, believe it or not.
Probably goes without saying, but, I’m here from Reddit. After just over 13 years there, seeing the slowly declining quality of posts and information, I’m hopeful that a smaller de-/less- centralized community-of-communities can give the old reddit experience :) And even if it can’t, any new experience will be great!
I’m mostly a programmer/gamer, studying for my MSc in computer science, but I’m thinking I might switch to a hybrid compsci/hardware topic for a PhD (something like static guarantees in HDLs is very interesting to me, but idk yet). I also quite like billiards and have been trying hard to learn French for about 2 years now.
I went from Slashdot to Fark to Digg to Reddit. Already found the Fediverse as @baronvonj@mastodon.online after recent changes over on Twitter.
As my user bio says I dabble in guitar and watch rugby (US MLR, go SaberCats) and hockey (NHL). For reading it’s mostly fantasy, with The Witcher and Discworld being my most recent books, but I also enjoy scifi. I tend to be more visual (ie TV and movies) due to ADHD though. Video games with a strong narrative are great. Games like the Horizon series (Zero Dawn, Forbidden West), Uncharted, Assassin’s Creed, Witcher, and Zelda Breath of the Wild.
Another ex-slashdotter reporting in! Have a 5-digit slashdot user id. And just celebrated 14 years on reddit. Well - I’ve moved before, I can move again. The fediverse seems pretty cool so far. Happy to be here. :-)
I thought I might have been 4 digit, but I just checked and it’s in the 61k range. Apparently ye olde /. is on mastodon now, @slashdot@mastodon.cloud.
So close. I’m 51114. :-)
If you consider BotW as having a strong narrative, you will very much enjoy TotK.
My son bought TotK, but I haven’t finished Horizon Call of the Mountain or Assassin’s Creed Odyssey yet. And now there’s Horizon Burning Shores, God of War Ragnarök to catch up on too!
Also, love the username you purple commuter!
hehe ;)
Helloooooooooooooooo out there!
Mid-20s queer trans lesbian here, yet another girl fleeing frantically from Reddit, but glad to have found a space that’s such a refreshing contrast from social media nowadays. (A social space? Being social? Imagine that!)
I am an extremely avid gamer (FFXIV being the game of choice for me right now), and a board gamer too, for that matter! I’m also finding myself down an anime/manga hyperfixation right now… and honestly being queer is a bit more of my personality than I might like to admit. Really, I’m hoping to find a sense of community here, and meet some cool folks, especially queer folks, in the process.
Immensely glad to be here!
Welcome!
What animes are you watching this season? I’ve been watching Hell’s paradise and Oshi no ko!
thanks for the welcome!
honestly i’m not even watching current season stuff right now – mainly i’ve been working my way through all the awesome stuff out there that i just hadn’t watched til lately. loved watching kill la kill, urusei yatsura’s been enjoyable, and revolutionary girl utena is one heckuva ride. (my tastes are pretty eclectic!)
Good day all! I hope everyone is having a wonderful day!
I’m a father of two little boys, husband, lover and teacher of FOSS.
Ex-Red Hatter for support. Currently performance IT analyst.
I think free and open source software is the only way forward in the world. Especially when it comes to these big social networks. The Fediverse is the only way, which is why I’ve been on Mastodon for a few years. Tried Lemmy, but was turned away from it. So happy to BEE here. :-D <3
HI all! Another from Reddit. In my mid 40’s, west coast US, and was really looking for a community like this.
I was a gaming geek growing up (Commodore 64 through all current gen consoles) and even worked in the industry as a game tester in the late 90’s to early 00’s. Grew up with an uncle working for IBM in the early 80’s and was exposed to REALLY early personal computers when they were not a “thing” yet and I have loved them ever since.
Other hobbies / interests are graphic design, photography, and for work I use AutoCAD and Revit as a designer. It was not what I got a degree in college (graphic design)…but I get paid to draw so I can’t complain :)
Looking forward to BeeHaw!
Hi! I guess you can call me a recurring reddit refugee, as this is like the third time I try to move away from that site to alternatives that feel friendlier and where it feels like you can have more genuine interactions with people. I guess you can still have that experience in smaller subreddits but reddit as a whole also feels increasingly like a site that tries to compete with other popular social media platforms. And that’s really not for me.
So I’ve tried other reddit-like platforms like whoaverse, before it renamed itself to voat and became filled with nazis; Empeopled, which had a really nice community, but eventually folded; Tildes, which was pretty nice but the level of discourse felt a bit…too much, for lack of better wording. Every post read like a essay or something (and not very interesting ones, for the most part), and everyone wanted to discuss about everything under the sun. I have nothing against that, mind you, but I also don’t have much free time or willpower to do that.
And last but not least, Lemmy. When I found out about it, there was only lemmy.ml, so I registered on that instance. Even though I do lean left on the political spectrum, some of the stuff I read on there felt a bit uncomfortable to read. But in general, the site was friendly to use, the community seemed cool, nonetheless, passionate about open-source and libre software, which I also am. Beehaw, so far, seems to have all the advantages I’ve mentioned before, without the caveats…that I’ve also mentioned before. I know nothing is perfect, and seems to be even more true with these kinds of platforms but so far so good :).
Anyway, I’m a 34 year old librarian, who is interested in computer science, Linux and open-source software. On the other hand, I also love games and have been getting into fighting games lately, which are decidedly not open-source but I’m no Richard Stallmann in that regard. Aside from that, love reading (especially about history), music, movies and tv shows, namely anime. Also love me some good manga.
I’ll probably remain a lurker for the most part but will also try and participate as much as time allows.
The predominance of the leftist instances worried me too. Hopefully since this immigration wave isn’t caused by an offcasting of undesirables, it won’t suffer the same problems as voat.
I mean, there’s nothing wrong with a reasonable instance that noticeably veers to the left on the political spectrum but, back then, my first impression of this platform was being very passionate about open-source and libre software, which was great, but when it came to politics, it felt like an echo chamber of “west bad, China good”.
Hopefully, this influx of new users helps with that. One thing I also liked about the other platforms I mentioned was that, namely on Empeopled, we had a lot of community engagement. Like, we had book clubs and music clubs and there weren’t a lot of us but most engaged actively with the site (as far as I can remember anyway). I hope people can replicate the same sense of community here.
“West bad, China good” is definitely not what I’d consider a leftist stance
I am also a redditor who came here yesterday. I am a snake and reptile loving lady (she/her) with ADHD who gets really obsessed with new and novel things, so of course I signed up for several different fediverse sites yesterday and am getting the hang of them.
For this site, I’m mainly looking for a kinder, smaller Reddit. I grew up on the internet in the early to mid 2000s and I really miss the smaller, tight-knit forum communities that were the norm back then. A small niche subreddit scratched that itch somewhat, but I still never really learned who the individual people in my frequented subreddits were, you know? It felt like less of a community.
My main hobbies are games (MMOs, simulators, cozy games, etc), crafts (cross stitch right now, but also crochet and knitting), and reading.
looking for a kinder, smaller Reddit
Exactly what I’m looking for these days! All the communities I find online are so combatative and exhausting - everyone seems trying to one up each other and getting aggressive at the slightest disagreement as if being performative for an audience.
Nice to meet ya. Do you have any reptilian pets? Pls share pics if you do!
I do! Here’s a pic of my leopard gecko, Gorrik!
Awww that’s a cute gecko-boi Does he let you cuddle him? I’ve heard a few geckos are cuddly
I don’t know if cuddly is the right word - it’s more like they don’t mind being handled, and they like to explore. He’s still a bit hand shy, but we’re working on it!
Nice, all the best to you both with it
Yay! A fellow knitter! I saw some knitting posts on the DIY community; socks, sweater, yarn.
I haven’t knitted in ages but I’m a keen crafter and do a lot of sewing, some embroidery/cross stitch, pottery, woodworking, and general artsy stuff. I have a heap of wool I need to spin so I can get back into wool crafts but I promised myself I would finish my crockery set first 🙃
What games have you been playing lately?
I see that you have a profile picture, are you willing to share how to set one?
In the jebora app you can go to settings -> profile and set display name, bio and profile pic. Hope that helps :)
Hi hawbeeists 😊 (like hobbyists, but Beehaw, get it?)
I came from Reddit. I like plants and animals and occasionally going hiking. I live in Atlantic Canada and am currently displaced by hurricane Fiona (still, after seven months), but the end is in sight and I should be able to go home soon! I have a BSc (major in Env. Sci.) and I like to draw digitally and play with string (crochet, knitting, etc.). I’m providing some 2D art to the upcoming free Steam game Jerma’s Big Adventure 2, which has been an absolute blast to work on. I’ve mainly been playing Sea of Thieves and Diablo III lately. I’m also a lesbian and most likely autistic. She/her.
Edit: je parle français aussi, mais il faut vous dire que mon français est rouillé 😅
How did you learn French?
In school. Started in grade 4, then did late immersion starting in grade 7 and stuck with it through junior high and high school, took the DELF and got a nice scrap of paper saying I was bilingual. I have tried to keep it up with Duolingo, but it was way too repetitive for me. I basically just read the odd article or book in French now, or occasionally eavesdrop on people from Québec or New Brunswick when I go to the mall in the city.
Damn, the anglophones are learning English to eavesdrop on us! /s
Though that’s interesting. For a lot of Quebecers, we expect classes of French taken in the rest of Canada to be kinda useless as most don’t seem to be learning much of anything. Definitely cool that you’re trying to keep it up!
I assume you’re in Nova Scotia or somewhere around that area?
I mean it takes a minute to even register, like “oh hey, they’re speaking French over there 👀”
Tl;dr for the following 1 a.m. ramble: most folks only take core French, so yeah, they don’t learn a whole lot. Those of us who go through either early or late immersion generally get a much better handle on the language, but nothing to the extent of a native speaker.
At least in my experience (in NS, you guessed correctly), French class was always pretty easy for me, since it was a lot of learning rules and patterns and I thrived on that sort of thing. Having all the other classes be in French was the really beneficial part of it, in terms of language application. There’s also the French school system in NS (conseil scolaire acadien provincial) that does French from either pre-school or grade primary. I guess I could’ve gone into that system since I’m Acadian, but the French school in my area was right in town, while my family was way the hell out between the suburbs and the sticks.
Based on what I’ve heard from some if my friends who took just core French, where there’s only one French class and you only take it up to grade 10, that’s where you often get a class full of kids who either don’t care or who just don’t quite have the knack for language acquisition. Most people take core French, so you’re right that most people come out of school with pretty well nothing. I’d wager that it’s similar in other provinces.
We all love 1AM ramble, it’s pretty coherent though.
Some of my family origins are Acadian as well in the New Brunswick region (though far enough in the genealogy that I don’t know anyone from there). Kinda interesting they use that ethnicity (I’m not really sure what to call it?) in the name of the French school system there. I kinda would’ve expected government offices to avoid using the term after the huge deportations.
It makes sense that a lot of students don’t bother with French outside of Quebec honestly. Unless they want to get into Federal politics or get a job in a federal office, they likely will never need it. It’s my understanding there’s still some small communities of French people in some provinces though so I guess that explains why there are French school systems, kinda out of obligation because of the law on the official languages of Canada?
Here’s their about page. I just kinda skimmed it. Seems to be open to any francophone in the province, as well as newcomers who either speak French or speak neither French nor English and exchange students who speak French.
I would say that it’s because of the grand dérangement that the term acadien is used in the name, so that those who are still here have the right to education in French, not that one necessarily has to be Acadian to go to a CSAP school. There’s also Mi’kmaq immersion in at least some of the schools on reservations, and I believe there’s a Gaelic immersion school somewhere in Cape Breton. Pretty neat that there’s this push for language/cultural reclamation.
That makes sense.
Really surprising there’s Gaelic immersion, I kinda assumed it was essentially no longer taught even in Ireland. Cool stuff!
Hi. Happy to be here. I’m trying to reduce the amount of algorithm suggested content I consume. For a while that was reddit. It no longer is. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Hello everyone! Long time reddit lurker here coming in to check out this new part of the internet. Currently in university for CS and love technology, computer hardware, tennis, videogames, and more recently cars.
Really like the idea of these smaller, more tight nit communities that exist on their own. Excited to see where this goes.
It has a feeling of the ‘older’ internet, doesn’t it?!
I collect some older 486’s myself, since I’m more of a hardware fan than software (if that makes sense!). Have you seen Halt and Catch Fire? If you’re a fan of computers, their history, the builds and all that, the series if 100% worth your time!
I just want to say I’m excited to be here! Feels like how message boards used to feel back in the day with the number of users not being crazy high like other social media platforms.
